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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#245	Overall
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#215	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

CCRi and others

Initial release

2019

2023

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Password-based authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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